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Other policy relevant indicators : Percentage of illiterates who are female

Indicator

Time

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Country

Afghanistan

66.05

Åland Islands

Albania

^(‡)

9.83

Algeria

^(‡)

52.06

American Samoa

Andorra

Angola

^(‡)

57.92

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

41.43

40.42

Aruba

^(‡)

59.97

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

⁽⁺⁾

66.83

⁽⁺⁾

67.09

47.34

Bahamas

Bahrain

60.55

Bangladesh

39.39

37.74

37.78

37.18

39.29

Barbados

Belarus

38.78

Belgium

Belize

Benin

^(‡)

60.07

Bermuda

Bhutan

47.54

^(‡)

48.48

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

52.41

Bosnia and Herzegovina

^(‡)

48.82

Botswana

Brazil

⁽⁺⁾

30.47

⁽⁺⁾

35.21

^(‡)

32.36

British Virgin Islands

Brunei Darussalam

^(‡)

35.06

^(‡)

35.46

Bulgaria

^(‡)

54.20

Burkina Faso

55.23

53.06

^(‡)

51.50

Burundi

61.56

^(‡)

53.14

Cambodia

^(‡)

43.38

Cameroon

^(‡)

58.86

^(‡)

58.68

Canada

Cabo Verde

^(‡)

29.40

Cayman Islands

^(‡)

60.87

Central African Republic

^(‡)

57.24

^(‡)

57.02

Chad

^(‡)

53.67

Channel Islands

Chile

⁽⁺⁾

49.02

^(‡)

55.45

China

45.21

China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

China, Macao Special Administrative Region

^(‡)

9.93

Colombia

⁽⁺⁾

39.97

⁽⁺⁾

35.46

⁽⁺⁾

35.14

Comoros

^(‡)

46.83

Congo

^(‡)

57.84

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

^(‡)

40.82

Côte d'Ivoire

76.26

Croatia

^(‡)

45.02

Cuba

^(‡)

40.60

Curaçao

Cyprus

^(‡)

45.63

Czechia

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

^(‡)

26.93

Democratic Republic of the Congo

^(‡)

61.40

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

^(‡)

59.29

Ecuador

39.34

36.91

25.45

42.98

Egypt

54.25

^(‡)

52.02

El Salvador

44.56

42.91

38.19

41.83

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

^(‡)

53.74

Estonia

^(‡)

32.13

Eswatini

^(‡)

35.39

Ethiopia

^(‡)

50.73

Faeroe Islands

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Fiji

Finland

France

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

^(‡)

39.20

Gambia

^(‡)

39.47

Georgia

67.30

16.35

Germany

Ghana

^(‡)

50.43

Gibraltar

Greece

Greenland

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

56.53

^(‡)

53.04

Guernsey

Guinea

64.46

^(‡)

63.33

Guinea-Bissau

^(‡)

59.98

Guyana

^(‡)

42.02

Haiti

Holy See

Honduras

25.42

33.51

Hungary

^(‡)

40.83

Iceland

India

61.24

Indonesia

50.51

48.28

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

^(‡)

44.11

Iraq

59.96

Ireland

Isle of Man

Israel

Italy

^(‡)

27.91

Jamaica

Japan

Jersey

Jordan

^(‡)

36.60

Kazakhstan

^(‡)

100.00

Kenya

^(‡)

46.99

Kiribati

Kuwait

30.91

25.16

27.94

Kyrgyzstan

^(‡)

39.51

Lao People's Democratic Republic

^(‡)

57.79

Latvia

^(‡)

36.35

Lebanon

67.23

Lesotho

^(‡)

21.60

Liberia

^(‡)

60.68

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

^(‡)

43.82

Luxembourg

Madagascar

51.35

^(‡)

49.88

Malawi

^(‡)

44.15

Malaysia

Maldives

^(‡)

53.44

Mali

56.60

57.20

Malta

^(‡)

31.79

Marshall Islands

Martinique

Mauritania

^(‡)

54.10

Mauritius

^(‡)

29.71

Mayotte

Mexico

⁽⁺⁾

47.04

⁽⁺⁾

44.36

⁽⁺⁾

44.60

Micronesia (Federated States of)

Monaco

Mongolia

41.00

Montenegro

^(‡)

55.57

Montserrat

Morocco

^(‡)

52.78

Mozambique

60.41

60.29

Myanmar

47.48

Namibia

^(‡)

38.52

Nauru

Nepal

^(‡)

58.82

Netherlands

New Caledonia

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

^(‡)

56.57

Nigeria

^(‡)

62.49

Niue

Norfolk Island

North Macedonia

Northern Mariana Islands

Norway

Oman

⁽⁺⁾

31.41

⁽⁺⁾

31.34

⁽⁺⁾

39.57

Pakistan

62.21

62.73

62.18

Palau

Palestine

45.63

46.41

52.57

49.01

51.94

Panama

61.24

50.11

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

32.46

39.18

48.54

Peru

61.10

53.21

57.44

Philippines

33.40

41.64

Pitcairn

Poland

^(‡)

32.29

Portugal

^(‡)

43.01

Puerto Rico

50.35

^(‡)

49.88

Qatar

Republic of Korea

^(‡n)

Republic of Moldova

^(‡)

48.81

Réunion

Romania

⁽⁺⁾

50.24

Russian Federation

43.58

Rwanda

42.90

38.19

Saint Helena

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint-Barthélemy

Saint-Martin (French part)

Samoa

^(‡)

32.50

San Marino

⁽⁺⁾

47.09

Sao Tome and Principe

^(‡)

45.29

Saudi Arabia

⁽⁺⁾

44.45

⁽⁺⁾

50.78

Senegal

59.73

^(‡)

56.27

Serbia

⁽⁺⁾

50.00

Seychelles

^(‡)

18.82

Sierra Leone

^(‡)

52.86

Singapore

⁽⁺⁾

41.32

⁽⁺⁾

39.34

⁽⁺⁾

38.15

⁽⁺⁾

37.53

⁽⁺⁾

40.17

Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

59.34

South Africa

32.78

36.13

37.48

South Sudan

^(‡)

49.52

Spain

⁽⁺⁾

43.85

⁽⁺⁾

31.40

Sri Lanka

36.75

38.71

37.62

37.73

39.38

27.80

Sudan

^(‡)

48.73

Sudan (pre-secession)

Suriname

^(‡)

58.71

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

Sweden

Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic

47.54

Tajikistan

Thailand

⁽⁺⁾

36.77

^(‡)

34.93

Timor-Leste

^(‡)

43.76

Togo

66.39

Tokelau

Tonga

^(‡)

41.23

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

54.73

Türkiye

⁽⁺⁾

81.07

⁽⁺⁾

80.22

Turkmenistan

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu

Uganda

^(‡)

47.58

^(‡)

42.91

Ukraine

^(‡n)

United Arab Emirates

11.62

39.86

46.31

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United Republic of Tanzania

^(‡)

46.63

United States of America

United States Virgin Islands

Uruguay

⁽⁺⁾

31.44

⁽⁺⁾

36.56

⁽⁺⁾

34.01

Uzbekistan

50.10

50.15

50.24

50.23

Vanuatu

^(‡)

45.11

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

^(‡)

33.94

Viet Nam

52.09

44.01

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Western Sahara

Yemen

Zambia

^(‡)

52.95

Zimbabwe

^(‡)

30.07

Sustainable Development Goal Regions

World

56.81

56.60

57.74

57.36

56.95

56.58

Landlocked Developing Countries

54.42

54.68

54.26

54.15

53.92

^(‡)

53.70

Least Developed Countries

56.25

56.05

55.86

55.55

55.16

54.83

Small Island Developing States

^(‡)

47.11

^(‡)

47.04

^(‡)

46.95

^(‡)

46.87

^(‡)

46.79

^(‡)

46.70

Sub-Saharan Africa

57.05

56.82

56.57

56.45

56.13

^(‡)

55.94

Northern Africa and Western Asia

59.48

57.04

56.98

56.97

57.04

56.97

Northern Africa

52.20

51.49

51.15

50.87

50.59

50.31

Western Asia

74.60

61.82

61.86

61.92

62.15

62.09

Central and Southern Asia

57.73

57.97

61.94

61.22

60.65

60.04

Central Asia

48.55

48.25

48.90

50.39

^(‡)

50.50

^(‡)

50.67

Southern Asia

57.73

57.98

61.94

61.22

60.65

60.04

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

48.69

46.98

44.98

44.15

^(‡)

43.52

^(‡)

42.73

Eastern Asia

48.00

47.02

45.76

45.07

^(‡)

44.91

South-Eastern Asia

48.93

46.96

44.64

43.76

42.92

41.89

Latin America and the Caribbean

43.76

43.75

43.68

43.63

43.12

43.18

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)

^(‡)

42.43

^(‡)

42.43

^(‡)

42.45

^(‡)

42.47

^(‡)

42.46

Europe and Northern America

^(‡)

50.76

^(‡)

51.09

^(‡)

50.04

^(‡)

50.50

^(‡)

50.88

Europe

Northern America

^(‡)

54.87

^(‡)

54.97

^(‡)

55.06

^(‡)

54.93

^(‡)

55.11

^(‡)

55.17

UIS Regions

World

56.81

56.60

57.74

57.36

56.95

56.58

Arab States

59.25

56.93

56.89

^(‡)

56.88

56.95

56.88

Central and Eastern Europe

51.79

52.81

48.45

46.24

44.20

44.11

Central Asia

50.23

48.65

48.39

48.46

^(‡)

48.21

^(‡)

44.99

East Asia and the Pacific

47.44

46.08

44.29

43.67

^(‡)

43.21

^(‡)

42.67

Latin America and the Caribbean

43.76

43.75

43.68

43.63

43.12

43.18

North America and Western Europe

South and West Asia

57.73

57.98

61.94

61.22

60.65

60.04

Sub-Saharan Africa

57.05

56.83

56.58

56.46

56.14

^(‡)

55.95

Small Island Developing States

^(‡)

47.03

^(‡)

46.95

^(‡)

46.87

^(‡)

46.79

^(‡)

46.72

^(‡)

46.63

World Bank Income Groups

Low income countries

57.20

57.14

56.61

56.46

56.11

55.79

Lower middle income countries

57.38

57.24

59.66

59.13

58.69

58.30

Middle income countries

56.84

56.54

58.69

58.19

57.72

57.34

Upper middle income countries

45.66

49.41

49.61

49.55

^(‡)

49.11

^(‡)

49.03

High income countries

Legend:

+	National Estimation
n	Magnitude nil or negligible
‡	UIS Estimation

Data extracted on 26 Apr 2024 00:27 UTC (GMT) from UIS.Stat

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